Re: %default-port-conversion-strategy and string ports

2012-05-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org skribis: Shouldn't strings be in internal encoding anyway? The whole point of a string is to be an array of characters. Not an array of arbitrarily encoded bytes. Yes, but I was referring to “string ports”, which may actually be fed arbitrary binary data, not

Re: %default-port-conversion-strategy and string ports

2012-05-31 Thread David Kastrup
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org skribis: Shouldn't strings be in internal encoding anyway? The whole point of a string is to be an array of characters. Not an array of arbitrarily encoded bytes. Yes, but I was referring to “string ports”, which may

Re: %default-port-conversion-strategy and string ports

2012-05-31 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org skribis: Shouldn't strings be in internal encoding anyway? The whole point of a string is to be an array of characters. Not an array of arbitrarily encoded bytes. Yes, but I was referring to “string ports”, which may